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ADAM SHULL | The Sun Alayna Thompson (left) of Murray walks along with Kacey Key of Mayfield inside Paducah's Kentucky Oaks Mall, one of the places teens can find seasonal, or part-time, work this summer.
Summer job competition red hot
Summer jobs have become so competitive that applicants need resumes showing some experience, even at age 16. “I know that it’s difficult for a young person to have experience coming in, but I in...
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Clinical manager — Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing (RN). Current appropriate state licensure. Advanced education preferred. Minimum of 12 months experience in clinical nursing is requir...
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Spain attempts to heal ailing banking sector
MADRID — Spain told its banks on Friday to set aside another €30 billion ($40 billion) to cover potential losses on real estate and ordered an independent audit of their debts, an effort to restore...
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Associated Press Vegetables are displayed at a vendor's stand at the Italian Market in Philadelphia. A big decline in gas and energy costs drove a measure of U.S. wholesale prices lower in April.
Cheaper gas drives down wholesale
WASHINGTON — A big decline in gas and energy costs drove a measure of U.S. wholesale prices lower in April. Outside that drop, prices barely rose. The Labor Department said Friday that the produ...
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Fitch downgrades JPMorgan Chase
NEW YORK — Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services each downgraded their assessment of America’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., on Friday. The rating agencies’ move comes a day...
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Unemployment aid applications drop
WASHINGTON — The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits ticked down last week following a sharp drop the previous week. Applications are falling again after rising for most of ...
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Associated Press Demonstrators hold signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington to protest the court's Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action lawsuit decision. For years, the world's largest retailer has tried to repair a reputation that's been damaged by decades of criticism and legal troubles. In April 2012, allegations that Wal-Mart paid bribes to officials in Mexico threatened to derail Wal-Mart's attempts to improve its image.
Wal-Mart’s reputation takes another beating
NEW YORK — In business, you’re only as good as your last good deed. Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, in recent years has tried to repair a reputation that’s been damaged by decades of cr...
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Associated Press Wayne County Clerk Glenda Young (second from right) assists a group of "lease hounds" from Texas as they pore over land records in search of mineral rights holders at the courthouse in Fairfield, Ill. Young says agents working at the courthouse include representatives from oil companies in Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Oklahoma. 
Drilling prospects bring land rush to Illinois
McLEANSBORO, Ill. — It’s not a festival or the 19th century architecture that’s drawing the late-model cars from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Pennsylvania to the downtown square in this tiny, sou...
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Associated Press A drill worker listens for the bit, hundreds of feet underground, during exploratory drilling for minerals and metals in April in the mountains in the department of Trou Du Nord, Haiti.
Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom
TROU DU NORD, Haiti — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti’s land may hold the key to relieving centuries of pove...
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Apple addition to Dow would have set market record long ago
Apple is the world’s most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world’s best-known stock index. So don’t they deserve each other? Consider this: If Apple had been ad...
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